I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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